Part One: Intercultural Borrowing -- Part Two: Religious Resistance to Foreign Rule
Jewish Acceptance and Rejection of Hellenism -- The Syriac Bill of Sale from Dura-Europos -- Review of Goodenough -- The Central Composition of the West Wall of the Synagogue of Dura-Europos -- Tales of the Tobiads -- Uruk Prophecy -- The Date of the Book of Jubilees -- The Testament of Moses: Its Content, Its Origin, and Its Attestation in Josephus -- Apocryphal Book of Baruch -- Review of Doran's Temple Propaganda -- How the Authors in I and II Maccabees Treated the "Messianic" Promises
Summary
"This is a collection of several of Goldstein's previously published articles. These articles deal with two themes that have animated much of Goldstein's scholarly interests, intercultural borrowing and religious resistance to foreign rule. Jonathan Goldstein taught at the University of Iowa for 35 years and passed away in 2004"--Provided by publisher
Notes
Edition statement from online full metadata page
"This edition incorporates typographical corrections of the original text."--Publishers' preface
"Open access edition funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program."--T.p. verso
"Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License."--T.p. verso
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 02, 2020)
